Posted: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 11:24 AM | 50 comments |
 

Eagles swimming in cap space
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From Mike Florio at profootballtalk.com comes this latest accounting of cap space around the National Football League.

In a shocking development, the Eagles have a ton: $23.1 million, fifth most in the NFL.

Months ago, club president Joe Banner said the Eagles couldn't possibly spend it all, and he is proving to be accurate. The Eagles will not be able to spend it all. They have enough cash to go out and make another move, if that is their desire. They have enough money to make another move and to extend Donovan McNabb, if that is their desire. They can make another move, extend Donovan McNabb and Sheldon Brown and drop hundred dollar bills from a helicopter and still have money left over to stuff into a very comfortable mattress.

You know what the saddest part of going into an uncapped year in 2010 will be -- if that, indeed, is the result of the collective bargaining negotiations that are supposedly going to begin in the coming months. If the NFL loses its salary cap, it will lose this readily-available accounting of who is spending what. It will leave us all without anything to talk about -- except the run-pass ratio.

 

 
Posted by Rich Hofmann @ 11:24 AM  Permalink | 50 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:39 PM, 05/17/2009
    restruct 5's contract...especially if they win it all! If they win it all he's earned the right to finish out his career here!!
    — jthomas40
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:53 PM, 05/17/2009
    McNabb has done enough that the Eagles should re-do his contract. Why not? They sure have the money to do it. I still think The Cards don't want to pay Boldin. The Eagles should stick with it and get Boldin and re-do his contract too.
    — drjimmy
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:07 PM, 05/17/2009
    There's no sense in saving money if somebody you covet is available for it. I can't help but think that with this roster you will STILL need a solid, veteran, large-bodied pass catcher for down deep on the other end of the field. That is if Andy and the bean counters are going to go balls-to-the-wall for a Super Bowl berth this coming season. (And an addition to the D-front would be a good idea too.)
    — TBear
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:34 PM, 05/17/2009
    hopefully they are saving up for 2010... hopefully...
    — Eagles_Nation
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:25 PM, 05/17/2009
    Give me a 5 year 20 Million Dollar contract, I'll praise the team for the whole 5 yrs. and won't complain about anything, wouldn't think of asking for a new contract, yada, yada, yada!!!
    — FireChief
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:29 PM, 05/17/2009
    If those numbers are correct, then the Eagles need to spend about $4 million to reach the salary floor, which is $107,748,000. That can easily be done with one contract extension. I'd say probably someone like Mikell, Stewart Bradley, Max Jean Gilles, or Abiamiri. Or maybe even Ellis Hobbs. They just traded for him and he's a FA next year
    — mikeyhigs
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:39 PM, 05/17/2009
    I think it's obvious this team knows more than some of you simpletons out there. They have a plan, and most of you can't get it through your skulls that they are not going to broadcast it or display it on a billboard outside the stadium. And please, please, please - get off the Boldin ideas. Boldin is not coming to Philly...period.
    — IGGLES1980
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:42 PM, 05/17/2009
    Pick up Deuce McAllister for some chump change at least!
    — fineedge1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:48 PM, 05/17/2009
    Good news. We are loaded for the draft next year and have enough money to still be players in FA next year if we want to be.
    — beeron
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:55 PM, 05/17/2009
    What is J.Pepper's status? HIM we could use.
    — Tracer41
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:02 PM, 05/17/2009
    Eagles Nation: You can't "save up" from one cap year to transfer to another.
    — mikerainey82
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:10 PM, 05/17/2009
    mikerainey, I guess they thought it was like rollover minutes!
    — scars73


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About Rich Hofmann
Rich Hofmann arrived at the Daily News in 1980 for a job whose status was officially designated as "full-time, temporary." A senior at Penn at the time, he was hired to fill in on the copy desk during a staff illness. The notion of him covering the Eagles or being a columnist did not exist in anyone's imagination. It was supposed to be six weeks and out, but he never left. It is only one of the reasons why so many people have concerns about him as a potential house guest. Rich has blogged the postseasons of the Flyers and Eagles. E-mail Rich at hofmanr@phillynews.com

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